1212 Emily is live with me Emily Dolan Davies come and hang out whilst I share my experiences in the music industry. You can ask me questions live and we can get you one step closer to your professional dreams Hello How you doing guys? Welcome Welcome Welcome to Emily's live we are back in the room we're back in the room and I'm so happy and I keep having these weird daydreams where I accidentally say the old Intro Welcome to dramas go to because I have said it hundreds of times and this is only episode 90 Think of this of me as Emily is LED. And but anyway, I'm just gonna say hello to a few people that are in the room few people got here early so we've got hooked on classic Simone is in Charlotte. Bibi is here we've got Stuart Coleman. Yes, who I am recording for this week blue song can't wait. It's going to be awesome. I'm so excited about it. And then who else? grandmama is here hello grammes of grammar work with last week who is just a love crime so much his music is awesome, very emotionally invoking and just beautiful. Greg Steen is here finally great Craig Steen has made it to one of these live streams which is brilliant. Nothing North music is here. Who unfortunately it's called the Rhona Matt, we are so sorry to hear that. But hopefully you're okay. And you're feeling all right. Let's not hit you too hard. Fingers crossed, fingers crossed. Jake prays here. Now this is important because Jennifer I spoke to I think it was last week was it not although last time I said this, I said I think it was a couple of months ago and you were like No, it was a year ago. So we did a one on one coaching session this week about various things, but part of it was talking about promo shots. And obviously, I'm in the new studio, obviously, and I realised that I need to do some new promo shots. Also, I had my hair done so that's part of the reason and I was like, You know what, I should film what I do because Okay, so check it out when I was younger the first 10 years that I play the drums and I'm sure that any drummer that is watching this back will or listening back will like relate to this. Do you have this thing where or I used to have this when I would play a gig and you know someone might have been taking photos now. This might have been just a punter it may have been a professional photographer right? Now for me there's nothing more exciting than the prospect of someone capturing me playing performance with the band that I'm playing with whatever. And every time I'd have this anticipation of that, maybe there'll be like an amazing shot and I can use it for promotion. I tell you what, it never happened 10 years and most of the shots I would have a symbol for a face generally speaking, which I know that all drummers have had this experience at least once I've had many times or you'd be so far in the back there'd be no lighting. So you're just like a shadow a figure in the background there. Or you know, the chances are that it just wasn't going to go well for any of us dramas is just an occupational hazard I suppose. So I'm going to share with you the one picture that I had that was half decent, and I will explain to you why although I loved it. It's so not appropriate for say promo shots for if I want to go on a gig or anything like that and also the fact that okay, so bear in mind, right, let me show you this. Hold on. I've got this on my shortcuts, but I can't remember which one it is. Right. So this was the only promo shot I had. Okay, I'm gonna move over here. I'm sorry. If you're listening back and you can't actually see this I'll try and describe it to you. So this was me around about I want to say 19 years old. My hair is pink. It's also long. It's down to just past my shoulders is pink blonde and dark underneath. I'm playing a pearl export kit, and a spawn snare drum. Now, this picture is great in that it's very dynamic. And I loved it for that reason, however, past the age of 20 How old was I? Oh, I can't even remember 2011 What was that 24 And I cut my all my hair off. So that's not relevant, don't have long hair anymore. So for setting that out completely, they were just like this isn't the person and secondly, I was 19 I am not 19 anymore. I'm 34 If I send that out, they'd be like catfish. Thirdly, playing a pole export kit. Now there's nothing wrong with a pearl export kit. But if you're trying to get like, you know, high end gigs, whatever. This is very obviously beginner not a beginner, like an entry level kind of kit. It looks very 80s with that. Tom on there. And yeah, it just didn't fit the purpose. So anyway, so what happened was I went to I got to one was it it would have been 20 Yeah, in fact, it was just after Cuphead So again, when I was about 24 I just thought you know, I'm going to take this into my own hands. And part of that was recording the best view video which was me wrapped in fairy lights and I thought, well, if I'm doing that I may as well just set up a camera and do some promo shots as well because no one's taking promo shots of me and even if I got in a photographer to come and do it, I'm so awkward and I get so self conscious. I mean, honestly, if you've ever seen me in a photoshoot, I'm not what I just don't know where anything should be. And I just really discombobulated really like, just just we're just so weird and it doesn't matter. To this day. I'm not great at it, man. Some of the cringy brochures I've had, it's just awful. And people try to be very kind, but it's just awful. So anyway, what I decided to do was take into my own hands, and I've been doing that thing for the last like say since 2011. So the last 10 years, when I've decided write a nice new promo shots that might be because I've got a new haircut. It might be because I've moved studios. It might be any number of reasons. You know, maybe I want something a little more dynamic. Maybe I want something a little more solemn. I'm the one that's in control and decide where I'm going to do this. And I follow the same pattern every time. It's gotten me some amazing, amazing hit. I will show you hold on if I can. Yeah, so I should have been playing these whilst I've been going actually. So these are some of the photos that I've gotten from taking my own taking matters into my own hands and these can be live shots as well. They don't even need to be set up in a studio and I appreciate that not everyone has a space to be doing a photoshoot for themselves. But honestly, you could book a rehearsal room for two hours and you could easily get some good shots as long as you're kind of like doing a few looking back and just seeing how they go. So all of these I shot like say whether that was a camera setup on stage because that's another thing you can do little GoPro in the corner on a time lapse function or in a studio, not the studio but old studios. Yeah, you can literally get the most brilliant shots and they're yours. You own the copyright as well as the whole thing. And you know, you just don't need to worry about it anymore. So anyway, I went live yesterday on Instagram whilst I was taking these photos to basically show what I was doing the live stream I think was two hours long. The whole process of getting the shots was around about four hours. But what I decided to do is actually create a video talking you through exactly what I'm doing, why I'm doing it and then you can see the shots afterwards. And I'm just hoping that this will inspire you to if you're looking to have shots done if you want better shots of you playing to show you that you can do it too and it's totally possible. So, right. With that being said, I'm gonna play this video that I put together yesterday and then let's talk about it afterwards. Okay, right, hold on, let's make sure that I actually hit the correct thing. Okay. Let's see. Let's talk you through this. So first things first number one, being comfortable clothes when you're setting up because no DB needs to be restricted. So first of all, I just simply set up some cameras I have a look at the light that's in the room. I would usually have curtains in my studio, although I don't currently so I could control the light so I'm working with the daylight in there which makes things slightly awkward but at the same time gives a really nice aesthetic luckily. So I have three cameras on today's shoot usually I just set up one but I'm trying to be you know, good and productive. So the other thing I'm going to mention is that you can use cameras and all that good stuff but equally using a phone man phones are so powerful these days. So there's no problem with having a phone that you're using or I'm using a GoPro museum to Sony's all you need is something with a time lapse function. So this is the first outfit and I make a point to where things are not were on stage. For instance, this one has flappy legs, which means that the bass drum beat and gets caught in them. And yes, that does happen. That is my childhood experience at least. So no stage for you but perfect for doing on a parachute. And that is always my aim is to sort of wear things that I really like I think they look cool, but they're just really impractical in reality. So here we go first take I'm just playing along to a song that I quite fancy. I think I was playing along there too who run the world girls and I play and then come and check to see what the angles are saying and see how things are looking. Turns out these first angles did not look great. I'm not going to lie to you so I decided to move some stuff around one of the cameras I just completely got rid of so we've ended up with just two now. So one Sony which I'm trying to get over the ride of the moment to get cool, kind of interesting look. I do know that I'm risking my life here because sometimes it likes to focus on the wrong thing. And then a GoPro which has the fisheye which can give a really nice wide angle which I always love and I use a hell of a lot on the live show. So he'd go on each camera and do a second take. I don't think I played everything on this tape. I just thought let me just play and sometimes in all honesty, I don't play at all I will just hold a pose and I will sort of, I guess, imagine or pretend to play by just wiggling the sticks a lot and it gets really nice movement. But at the same time you still are in focus, which is a massive, massive deal. And something I've definitely had to learn the hard way when I've ended up with 400 shots and all of them are out of focus which is really fun to realise that's why I decided to keep checking so this is outfit two are gone. Again sorry, completely inappropriate because I was very, very long sleeves I love it is incredibly flattering, but I cannot play it properly. Although in saying that full disclosure I did actually wear it when I was recording for The Voice Kids but the main reason for that was because it was absolutely freezing on stage. So I made it work and it did work and it was nice but I thought let's actually let this outfit in the light of day as well. Move the cameras around different angles, get those shutters going again, got my GoPro over my floor tom because I know that I can get them in tight in interesting spots where usually for a photographer, you can't have a photographer by your rights and it is not practical not even slightly but a GoPro you can get in there pretty nicely. Again, I came to just check that everything was okay and they all seem fine. So once again moving cameras around trying to work out angles. I thought about doing something that was slightly silhouetted and I decided that that might be a good shout. And then it's on to outfit three another completely inappropriate inappropriate for playing which is a very long sleeved, very flappy armed jumper. That reminds me of Steve Jordan on the DVD The groove is here which I adore. So anyway, doing another take this time the GoPro is over the time it gives an interesting wide angle lens and I'm also doing some more post shots at the end not playing just to make sure that there's sort of some variation and then we go on to the actual editing of the photo. So all I do is go into each camera's memory card and I'm basically pretty brutal about what looks good. What looks awful. If something sort of sparks something in me I'm like, Oh, that looks interesting. I'm more likely to keep it. I'll be honest though on the whole terrible terrible shots. A lot of out of focus stuff which is really fun. And But yeah, if I if I get in my head that it could be interesting as a post or social media is good. That was the angle there that was silhouette and it turns out all of it was completely out of focus so completely unusable. I did sort of try to think maybe I could use something interesting but my brains going no, don't even waste your time because there is a time cost with all of this. So we're going to the GoPro angles, which are really nice. I really enjoy these. I know some people don't like fisheye lenses but I think they make for such dynamic photos that are so interesting. And again, a photographer cannot get those kinds of angles in my experience. And I think it just makes it super interesting. Then we go into the editing. So I use an app called Canva you get a free version. So yeah, go get that it's really good. And I make three versions. I have a sort of YouTube thumbnail version, which is 1920 by 1080. I have a square version for Instagram and then I have a vertical version which is more for stories. And what I'll do is pick out one or two photos from each angle if you like on each outfit and plus angle, and I will create posts for me. I tried to make sure that I highlight all the sort of white colours or the dark colours or the black colours and then also the golden tones. So that's just the aesthetic that I'm going for. So I'm trying to bring that out in each photo and then it's all about just making it look nice for me for my eye. You know, at the end of the day, it's subjective it always will be but if I like it, then that's a really good start. So I'll move stuff about I'll see how I can frame it. I'll see sometimes if I can even make it funny, maybe or at least try to make it funny. And then I'll do the like I say the three different versions mostly on this lot. I'm doing square versions for Instagram, but there are a couple that are kind of the YouTube thumbnail sizes. And then for the stories I tried to leave space for things like stickers for if I'm asking a question, or doing a poll or something fun like that, and here are the finished photos, at least the ones that I liked and thought were redeemable for this episode. And as I say if you can control the lighting then you can get some really interesting and dynamic shots as well but just work with what you've got, whether that is a bone as long as it's got time. lapse function, then just get playing and get some shots together. It's it does take a bit of time but in my experience, it is absolutely worth it. And if you're out on tour, stick a camera in on in the corner because these are some of the greatest shots I've ever got from playing live and it is literally my GoPro that is just stuck to a random stand. And with literally a tiny bit of editing, I get these incredible dynamic shots that no other photographer could get. If you need some new promo shots, you can top them up by yourself and never have to rely on anyone else again. So I hope this has inspired you to just get started. That was a whirlwind wasn't it? Crikey right, let's get these ones off. I'm gonna just cycle the pictures that I got on that photo shoot just so you can sort of actually see them a bit of time. Move over so not being obstructed. So yeah, so that was essentially four hours of doing stuff yesterday quite intensely to the point that I probably should have stopped after two hours and taken a break but I didn't because I get on these trajectories and and that's it but like I say, you know you don't need expensive equipment. Phones I found I found an app I think it's called Lapse It it's completely free and you just set it going every five seconds or whatever. Take shot even better if it makes a noise because you know it you can actually hear when you need to change pose if you're posing a shot. I wanted to talk about closing the shot as well because I didn't really explain that properly. Very well on the video, but I've just got some sticks here. So what I mean by rather than actually playing along because sometimes if you're playing along it can be difficult because your camera wants to try and focus but it can't so you end up like just with blurry faces or you know, but you want some movement in the sticks or in your arms or it depends what your instrument is, I suppose but what I meant by posing and sort of moving the sticks to get the movement but without the face moving so the face can be in focus is like so let's say oh look, I'm adding via and by the way always like do poses facial expressions, the whole thing, the match the way that you actually play and actually perform because otherwise, what's that thing? False advertising never a good thing. Nobody wins. But let's say you're super happy person when you play it right? So what I would do is so what quite a dynamic shot I'm about to hit a crash or whatever. So rather than actually hitting the crash and metal and it being all like glary and whatnot, literally hold the pose and then you just shake the sticks as if you're air dropping essentially like that. And that will give you the movement of the sticks, but you'll stay in focus. So it's little things like that, but I've sort of learned over the years, though, really just helps the situation. And as I say if you can talk to things like this into your own hands then I think is nothing but a good thing. Plus, it's actually really fun. And you can get really creative with it. Like there were a bunch of shots that I did when I didn't have anywhere to play by managed to set up a kit with like it was lit from behind. So it had a silhouette of drums behind me. And then I was just like jumping around and being really silly but it made for some really interesting shots. I still sometimes he is amused at the ages. I should probably Yeah, I can post them on my new instagram at some point. But let's stop this photo shoot carousel thing because you've seen enough that anyway, I hope that this helps. Tell me us like ask me whatever questions you've got. Because I love talking about this I find it really like to be creative and I just really enjoy it so right so I'm going to go to the questions in the room in a second but first I've had some questions in before I went live so as always I will go to those first if you want to be if you want to join in on any of these lives. Go to Emily's live.com to sign up and you can be part of the conversation live or if you can't be here live then also go to Emily's live.com. And you could submit any questions that you have for me. So this one is related to today's topic. I don't know who it's from actually. But they said Would it be better to have a film of yourself playing the drums to get work as well as photos from that film? Also, what would you include in a package to promote yourself when looking for drumming jobs? Okay, so two parter there so the first bit was bad the film of you playing or the photos or both? Well, I would say variety is the spice of life. So if you can only have I mean it's always good to have video of you playing. Okay, so this there's so much that I can unpack with this. I think video of you playing is gold because it gives a real visual representation of someone playing and I think video should be sort of like number one. Well, I'll also say with that, don't neglect the sound of the video so it might sound awful. It might be just drums or distorted, horrible as fine. Take that audio away, mute it and record something or overlay something that you've recorded or or just something that is different that it's still related to you in some way. It might even be an artist that you're playing with and have that as the soundtrack because it can be really distracting to hear this kind of like gross sound and a lot of people don't understand that. You know, that is a gig. That is what it sounds like when you've just stuck a camera. People want to hear nice things. They want to see nice things and as long as it represents you, then it's it's great. I mean don't get me wrong. Don't have a video of you playing a ballad and then you've got a heavy metal track underneath that probably won't work. But you don't just just be logical lazy. It's not rocket science after all. So yeah, and then if you want to lift a few shots from that if you can, if your camera is good enough if the lighting is good enough to lift shush shots directly great do it but what I will say is that you know it might be quite well either reframe them so you change like say your central when you're recording the video, just change it so you're right or left of the frame. And and so make it look a little bit different, maybe change the colouring something like that. But ideally, I'd say get us either a separate gig where you've taken some stills or a completely different shoe or even the same gig but a different angle will work to just have some sort of variety because otherwise it looks like it's all just like it's just one show that you've done. And it's a bit weird. I don't know, I think so at least. So yeah, I think film is brilliant. Go for that. The photos are pretty essential, really? I think Yeah. So do them just even if it's a couple, even if it's a couple of shots. So from that four hour shoot, I had three different outfits. I think I ended up with like 24 shots. It's not bad. It's not bad going for hours work. And then the second part of the question was also what would you include in a package to promote yourself when looking for drumming jobs? So video, absolutely. Photos. Absolutely. If you have audio of your of your playing, it depends on what the job is. Because if it's a recording job, audio is everything. Like they need to know how you sound because that's all the matters if it's a live show. Video is key because they want to know how you perform and what you're going to bring to a live show. And then aside from that, you know, a very short CV, just little bullet points of your experience or people that you've played with or genres that you play in, you know, again, if it's a recording thing, have a portfolio of like five or six or even three or four, just different songs that you've recorded in the same sort of vein of whatever job you're going for. If it's live, then just put down your live experience put down all the skills that you have, whether that's you know, obviously say it's me drummer, plays a bit of percussion, backing vocals, not really. But maybe you do backing vocals, then put that down, can read music, electronics can run playback, and then list you know Ableton logic HD 24 You know, whatever cue lab, whatever things that you can use for playback. So basically you just want to showcase yourself and what you can bring to a gig. How can you help that other person? That's what I would say, but make sure it's in very short form very digestible bullet points or making the key points bold or something like that, just to showcase what like say what you can offer to a gig. So I hope that that helps in some way. I'm not sure. Okay, so second question came from drummers world 1972. I know you can't be here usually. But thank you for the question, who said how do you manage neighbours? And noise? So at the moment, I'm very lucky obviously I have a studio it's soundproof his purpose bill, I am the luckiest of the most lucky people in all of luckyland but it hasn't always been this way. So growing up where I didn't have a drum kit to play on at all up until the age of I want to say like 14 and even then it was electronic kit. And then it was an acoustic kit that had silences on it. So I'd say in terms of neighbours just open up a dialogue. I had a funny story. So when we moved to our last house, initially before the studio got built out, I had to practice for an artist. I was working with Rosie Lowe, and I was terrified. I was like we've literally just moved into this house. We have brand new neighbours and I'm about to start practising. I'm a drummer, they're going to hear it they're going to hate me, so I went round to the neighbours. Before anything, and I just I knocked on their door with a little bit of paper with my email address my number and it was almost like going around and saying that I was a sex offender. It was that kind of like, awkward and horrible. And also Oh, hi. So we've just moved in next door. But I thought that I should let you know. And I'm actually in trauma and you can see their faces like, Oh, God, as I look, I'm only going to practice you know, I've got to do a bit of practice, but it's only going to be like a couple of hours a day is going to be in the middle of the day. I'll make sure that it's not past it's not before why. And yeah, and I just was very open and I said look if there is any problem if you ever just like know too much. Just stop just text me email me call me and I will absolutely because at the end of the day, my number one concern is that you're okay. Like you guys are fine. And that worked worked really, really well. If however your neighbours aren't that great, which that's happened to me to rent a room. That's why I would do so I was living in a place that while I was living in various places for about three years where I wasn't able to practice but I was out on tour I was needing to you know have a space. So I found this rehearsal room. It was around about an hour's drive from me but they offered some crazy package like if you were there midweek during the day, you could get a studio for I think it was like 10 to four and it was something crazy like five pounds. It was something insane. But it was because I searched it out. I sort of got to know the guys and I was like, Look, can I come in? Yeah, great. And that really, really helped. So I think it's just working within your means a little there will always be something I think that will hinder what you're trying to do. But as long as you're sort of respectful, find a way around it, then it's kind of fine. So I'm just I'm very lucky at the moment with the neighbours and noise situation. So I hope that that's helped you drum as well. 1972 And, yeah, hopefully, let's see. And then the last question I've had before I came live was Was there a turning point in your mindset going from hobbyist to semi pro to pro slash full time so hobbyists to semi pro? I think the only change from hobbyist to semi pro was deciding, just going I'm doing this and that was when I was 14 So I'd been playing for three years and I've been circling around the idea but a 14 I dedicated myself I was like no, this is what I do. And it wasn't a negotiable it was like no it's not about if I can do this is how I'm going to do it and when I've just got to do the work and I knew that it was just like right let's go in terms of turning from semi pro to pro or full time. Yes, I suppose the change was just getting so proactive and just taking really uncomfortable action basically. So up until I was again around about 2011. So 10 years into my career, my career into my playing, I should say i i was in bands. I was playing around London like loads. I was doing rehearsals all the time I was you know, I was just on the cover circuit. I was just sort of like doing that a lot. I was I'd been doing bits bits and bobs. And then there were things I was kind of avoiding. And then there were I was coming up with reasons that things weren't happening for me. So annoying I annoy myself so annoying. And I would make excuses you know this that this is the reason I'm not getting that this the reason I'm not that successful. This The reason I can't do this can't do that. Mmm. And moan moan moan moan that's so boring. Nobody cares, Emily, nobody cares. So I decided to just actually do the things that I knew would move the needle but would make me feel very vulnerable and that the first thing that I did today is the discernable moment that things changed for me was recording that Foo Fighters best of you YouTube video wrapped in fairy lights. I can't tell you how vulnerable I felt going into that releasing that how much I was just like, oh my god, everyone's gonna hate it. Everyone's gonna hate me. No one's gonna call me everyone's gonna realise how rubbish I am as a drummer. So like all the worst things you can think of yourself. That was why I was thinking I was like, oh my god, it's just gonna be the most awful thing in the world. My whole world is gonna end and you know, no one's ever gonna call ever again and my absolute reverse happened and it gave me the confidence to then keep going and actually start creating the career that I wanted versus waiting for someone else to call me. And I think taking control like that just totally turned everything around for me. So yeah, I think that's the mindset that kind of the shift and then from there, my confidence just grew in what was possible. And then it was, you know, opening up my own studio. Oh my God when I tell you that, that was never on the table for me, especially around the age of that sort of age 2324 view to Toby that 10 years later, I'd be sat here right now in a studio recording for people and just do your rolling with this beautiful outlook and all these wonderful people chatting to online live. You would have been like now you're joking. Like that's the biggest joke in all the world but I tell you what, if you can find a way to just, I guess affect your own fate, be proactive, take action, and it's going to be uncomfortable. But the more that you take uncomfortable action, the more comfortable it becomes and there's definitely power in that and then find the next uncomfortable action and then take that and see what happens because weird stuff happens. I am I'm living proof that the weirdest stuff can happen sometimes. So anyway, I'm sorry. That was a bit of a long ramble that was not intended. Right. Let's go live to the room again. If you want to be part of this conversation live go to Emily's live.com Ask me any question. That you want. Or if you want to actually be in the room, then you'll get a link 15 minutes before I go live every week and a little blurb on what I'll be talking about. So as you can tell, I can literally be anything. So let's see who else in the room. Zoster is here. Hello, Michael. How are you? He says I don't care for daylight savings time lower so Zoster is in I want to say San Antonio, Texas. Have I made that up or is that something in the back of my brain that's actually working for ones I'm not sure. But anyway, disaster Hello. It's lovely to see you it and I'm sorry that Yeah, and I'm going early. I'm earlier than usual as well. So I double apologise. I don't know why I'm apologising for daylight savings. I don't think that one's my fault but the going on earlier with definitely is grey and Wilma is saying going to have to leave before the end of this one. Hopefully I'll get to see EMS photography ideas first though. Yeah, I hope you managed to see all that rambling. It was yeah, that crazy. They'll stay saying Good Day to everyone and sorry to hear that Matt has caught the the horrible Rhona, although I think he was saying that it's actually quite mild. So thank goodness for that. Joe pagans is here. Working on some stems. So me and Joe working together this week as well on I want to say Thursday, Joe Have I got that right. They see the Wednesday or Thursday on I did look at my diary this morning, but I've done a poor job again. Joe Perkins, amazing guitarist Joe. I was talking to someone over email last week and we were talking about and I can't remember who it was to Matt how brilliant your guitar tones are, and how much we appreciate you. And the fact that you sent me a rough demo to listen to for this recording this week. The tones was so good and the recording was so good. And you're like, Oh no, it will be better. Dude, you're awesome. You are awesome if anyone wants to hear. So Joe also does a lot of testing of different guitar pedals on his YouTube channel. So go check him out. He's amazing. We love Joe. And so grandmama is saying to Matthew North sympathies. Hope it's a mild one and doesn't hang around. And Simone says nice haircut. Thank you. It's by Vince the letter of Tony and guy in Enfield who is the only person who has cut my hair since 2011. And I love him dearly. And then the colour was done by a lady called Lisa also from Enfield and started switching idiot. Jake forett says yes, I thought the subject sounded familiar. Yeah, so Jake, you just made me realise how like I don't know. Just it's such a simple concept taking your own photos and it's not that hard. Really. Honestly, I'm an idiot. And if I can do it, I'm pretty sure anyone can do it. It does just take a bit of time and a bit of messing around. And if you can enjoy the process of just being quite creative, like Oh, that's interesting. Obviously that's going to help you might hate it. If you hate it, you can still you know, just muddle on through and you'll get something you'll get something and it's really interesting. Having an awareness of what you look like when you're playing the shapes, the facial expressions, I think anything like that understanding your performance better is great for going for jobs, especially if it's live or performance related. Maybe it's something to do with video. But yeah, very. I found it invaluable. I really have. I know is here hello ani Lovely to see you. Yes, I made it. I had some Wi Fi issues. I missed the last two or three layers but I'm here. We are so happy to have you on oh so happy to have you. Graham is saying lovely loving the hand. Thank you very much Graham. And don't you think is here Hello, Donnie, how are you? So Dani is an amazing guitar. She also is an amazing producer. We both work together on Sophie mahones latest release, which is amazing. And so one of her tracks called soldier in the Wildcat ended up having 60 tracks of drums because I just couldn't help myself with overdubs. It's like to follow I know it's three maybe it's three full on kits, and then so much percussion, percussion, percussion, and, and, and like sounds and almost Foley type stuff. I was so fun and it was one of the last things I recorded at the first studios so Yeah, lovely to have you, Donnie. It's lovely to see you. Matthew North says unlucky Oh, crikey, sorry, my my. My page just jumped. I said Matthew, who has just caught the Coronavirus unfortunately, I'm lucky it's mod. I'm just worried about the people I've been around. Oh yeah. With my gig last week, but Touchwood they're okay. Yes, I is funny as I was I just spat sorry about that. I was just thinking you had like three gigs wasn't it last week or two gigs and I think one of them was Ronnie's did I make that up? How are they how are they? Aside from catching Coronavirus? Not ideal bit of a you know downer. What's the opposite of the silver lining? It's like a non silver lining at all. Like a copper lining to your your week. But how was the gig aside from catching Corona? Ana says Looking good Emily. Thank you. I know you're very kind for another Riviera. Hey Emily, I'm on work and can't follow the live stream but I'll take a listen ASAP. Thank you so much for your insights. Fernando. Thank you for your support. You're wonderful person I I really must apologise and thank you if you stuck out this far, and you're on the audio podcast version of this not watching the video I will also go watch the YouTube so you can see the visuals. But I did try to Elise describe stuff so that it would make sense but I don't I'm not sure I did a great job. So I apologise but come and look at the YouTube so you can actually see all the photos and stuff and so Simone set in stone says that's a fab photo though the one with the fairy lights. Oh, thank you. Like I say that was I want to say that was the first ever shoot that I did photoshoot along with the videos. afterwards. I was like right in my head. It was like I should take photos to promote the video. That was my thinking. I'm pretty sure I'd done like a couple of just like profile shots before like maybe a couple of weeks prior just messing around really. But yeah, that like I say that one day. I feel like was such a pivotal moment in my career and you know, in a wider sense in my life. So Oh, I'm sure many people have heard me say this. The reason that I did that video was basically because my sister made me so I'm eternally grateful to Hannah for you know, just giving me that push. She often gives me that push actually where I'm I'm sort of like teetering on the edge of an idea or something or maybe not to hearing it or maybe not even seeing the idea and she's like, You should go do this. This would be a really good thing. That would look really cool. That would be interesting. And often she is corrected, very annoying that I'm joking is great. It's amazing. Jed Kenyon is here. Hello, Jed. How are you afternoon? Oh, just checking in and saying hi to all catch up soon. Have a great stream Emily Take care everyone thank you for popping in Jed it's lovely to see you on here. So as to say as to which GoPro using Well, I was going to get them out there's no point. So I'm currently today I was using a GoPro four and the new one that I've got which is amazing is the GoPro eight. But when I started out, I think I was using one or two. I don't have any more actually. I don't know where it went. I am not one that throws things away ever. Well, very rarely. And I don't know where that is, but that hero eight is pretty spectacular. I did look at the new one that's come out because there was something really interesting about it. I thought it would be really good but can't remember what it was so it couldn't have been that good which is great. So I didn't buy it so so yeah, so the GoPro A is kind of the one I'm using at the moment if I get the chance. The thing that I like the most about the GoPros is they work really well in low light, which is perfect, obviously for live shows, basically. And they're really good with dealing with motion. Obviously it's kind of what they do. So yeah, the a lot of the stuff is very infocus The downside is you know the reason that I have the go a GoPro and a Sony is that the Sony although for its fault sometimes does focus on the wrong thing. When you get the right thing in focus, it can look there's a lot of depth to it, which is really nice like when you get that sort of blurring of the background or maybe something in the foreground. So it's just a really different aesthetic. So I like that I like the fact you can get two very different looks from two different cameras obviously, starting to get very warm and like good, I think. Anyway, so. Kevin Siegel. Hello Kevin. How are you? Are you well? Good morning everyone. It just after 7am In the eastern USA. Oh my goodness. That is crazy. Thank you for joining us, Kevin. You Anzahl stir and it's 6am Where's Elster is you are mad but we love you for it. So we're so glad to have you here. And Kevin says I agrees I'll start I'm no fan at all. This is a daylight savings. Yes, I've gotta say I am a fan at the moment because I have to do a call on Wednesdays or Thursday. I say have to know I get to I get to do this call on Wednesday Thursday and we're only four hours time difference at the moment which really so means I get it done earlier in my day. Oh, so happy. So Simone says Don't forget to smash the like, guys. Oh, thank you Simone. You are my resident reminder for things like that. If you're enjoying this on YouTube right now on the podcast, like it subscribe, share all the good stuff. It all helps me to get the word out more information. I'm being very handy today. All right, Jake Perez has any recommendations for camera that won't break the bank secondhand GoPro which one or any good knockoffs. I don't know about the knockoffs but I do hear that they're very good. In terms of I mean, the GoPro four is really great. It's got an it's got a screen, which was the difference from the one for me so the one never had a screen you just kind of had to take your life in your hands with it. But yeah, the phone the phone, the four is good and everyone that comes out you know, obviously the price gets cheaper of the older ones so that's great. And then the Sony what is the Sony that I can never remember? Oh actually is what I'm filming on right now. What is it Zen I should know this is it is a Zed s 100 or something I don't know is this Zeese Zeiss? These are things I should know. Anyway, it's Hold on, right. I'm so sorry. This is so Oh, there we go. Oh, no, that's a different one. Hold on. I'm gonna tell you for sure. This is Oh, that's it a DSC r x 100. These are expensive. There are about eight different versions of it. This one is the one this is the first one that ever came out. You could probably I don't know how much you can put pick these up for now. I think they're like 200 quid, but the newest version is like 1200 quid it's crazy. The difference like the mark eight to whatever it is. I don't even know I don't have one. Yeah, they're brilliant. They're really like say this is a version. This camera that I'm filming on right now is a version of that is the newer one that is kind of more geared towards vlogs and podcasting and stuff like that. So yeah, it does the nice blur, slight blurring of the background, which is I quite like I don't know. But yeah, GoPros the four is brilliant. Four is great. If can go a bit higher. That's great too. They all work like I think he's just finding things that work. But like I say, you can use your phone you don't even need to use any specialist crazy equipment. So Matthew North says Jake Paret Yes. Oh yeah, the zoom q2 N excellent audio in the camera is pretty good too. It's basically a field recorder with video tacked on but does the job especially in good light and not very expensive. I think I used to have I don't know which one it was actually maybe it wasn't the q2 and I love zoom products. So the first not the first one of the first USB mic recorders that I have that was standalone was the H two N loved that war to death to the point that it just it fell apart because I used it daily. Hourly. It was so good. I love it so much. I love it so much. And so I love zoom stuff but I did get I want to say is this the q2 and but I tell you what it was I was using it for streaming and the quality for streaming is not great. But I spoke to them and they said yeah, so the streaming quality isn't as good as the recording recorded video if that makes sense. So yeah, maybe look into that as well. So don't even says So how did you get from doing the videos like the Foo Fighters cover to getting gigs? Such as Kim wild? Did you approach them or did they approach you? Okay, so, while the Kim wild gig was slightly bizarre, so Right. So how did I go from doing Foo Fighters videos basically, the difference was I was getting like recommended for gigs. A lot. Well not a lot. A bit a bit. A few people were now that's great. And someone's saying oh Emily would be great for that is brilliant and I might get a phone call. Brilliant. Let's have a chat. Awesome. Yeah. So all the right stuff wherever I can say all the stuff that I want. I can say all the gigs I've done I can say all the experience I have. But if there's not a representation of me that someone can visually see or audibly hear. There's only so far that recommendation can go there's only so far that someone will put their reputation on the line to bring me in on the off chance that it would work. Basically, you know, that kind of limited me to the people that I was or I had played with and I was I still am a big advocate of getting out there and playing with as many people as you can. I've always done that. I've always been in multiple bands I'm always you know doing gigs everywhere and you know gapping depth drama for all sorts of stuff but if you do something like even if it's covers video doesn't matter why it is if you put something out there, you instantly your rich just go so much further than your immediate network. And if someone does recommend you, there's a reference point so someone could say Emily would be great for that. Here. Check her out here. Someone can watch the video, make a decision for themselves. And there you go. Now you got two people thinking you might be good for this job. So that was kind of the difference in terms of the different gigs. I mean, every gig has come around in a different way. Even to the point sometimes I don't even know tricky when I played with tricky. Me and the musical director to this day still have no idea how I ended up on that gig. He has no idea where he got my number from I have not I remember getting the phone call but I don't. We couldn't work out any mutual friends. It's just one of these very strange gigs. So that that was one was that that was 2011 gigs like fence and Cher Lloyd. I got that through a recommendation. So one of my best friends Cherie, so say she's a drummer as well. She had been working with a keys player on Meeker and he was endearing. Cher Lloyd. And Sheree says why don't you get Emily she'd be perfect. He looked he watched the video he went yeah, that's perfect. That would be a really great fit. Got me in for audition. It worked out really nicely. I ended up playing Michelle Lloyd for a year after that. 2014 Thompson twins. That was because the drummer who lasted a Thompson twins gank a wonderful man named Jeff dug more. That was back in 87 was the last gig he did with him. Tom wanted him to do the next tour that he did you know, 30 years later or whatever. Jeff wasn't around, but just a friend of mine. And Jeff was like, well why don't you check out Emily? Again, Tom and his manager so some stuff on lines on Oh, yeah, that might be cool. Let's get her in for was actually just the chat wasn't even it wasn't even an audition. The first time I played with Tom was in the rehearsal room with Tom and I was like, Okay, I mean, that's fine. And in terms of Kim Wilde, so this was where the so before you know this don't so Kmart has two drummers. So it's me and Jonathan Atkinson. Jonathan Atkinson has been with Ken for 15 years. He's amazing. I love him again, one of my best friends and he couldn't do one show. And at that time, we were also we were playing on how gems together. So he said to me in a random, you know, gig in the middle of the state somewhere. So by the way, I can't do the show. And Kim, could you cover it for me? I was like, Yeah, great. I kind of knew a couple of the guys from the band and I was like, yeah, that'd be really fun. Anyway, when did the show had a great time really fun. Great bunch. Loved it. And in the bar after the show, as a joke, so Kim was like, Oh, I really enjoyed playing with you. As a joke. I said her. You just have to have two dramas now. And she went. That's a great idea. Let's have two dramas and her her sound engineer was next to her and he just looked at me. I was like, I hate you and all that. I love you. Thank you. So um, yeah, things just come about in really random ways. But if you have that point of reference that someone can look for themselves. So with the darkness, they you know, we had a few mutual friends a few different people that said, Why don't you get Emily that will be a really good like match. They then saw the video on YouTube of me wrapped in Fairy Lights went yeah, we want her. That's brilliant. Let's do that. So it just yeah, it's just a guess. It's almost like social proof. It's just showing people what you do on your own platform. That's how I see social media. It's kind of like having your own marketing platform. You get to do with it what you will like, it's amazing and it's so powerful, like even doing stuff like this. This is not drumming, obviously, but people get to see my personality, some people really like it. Some people really hate it. That's fine. That's absolutely fine. But what it means is people are more likely to reach out for recordings, you know, drumming recordings, or going on tour, or even downs just doing interviews or something like that. And in fact, so a big part of the reason that I was involved in count me in was because one of the producers who I've known for a long time, but she saw that I was doing these two camera pieces, and she was like, why don't you come and do this interview? Like you'd be perfect for it because I can I can talk fairly comfortably on on screen. I suppose he is Yeah, on camera. That's what I mean. So yeah, it's just funny how things come about. But I think if you just put lots of little things out there then it's like sowing lots of little seeds. Some of them won't take. Some of them never do. But other ones so either will keep coming back year after year. Like that video of me the food fires or it will be a one and done. One person will see it and it will make all the difference. And then it will never be seen again or won't make a difference. But yeah, I think I can't even remember what your original question was. Dodi Oh, it was just basically Yeah, how did I get all those? All those gigs? So sorry, that was very, very long and randomly rambley but I hope that it gives you some insight into how that sort of the cogs in the machine work if that makes sense. So Kevin is saying I know you're not a gearhead see, you know me Kevin, by near the details of that beautiful purple sparkle snare drum on your kit. I also have a purple sparkle snare drum that I built. It's an American Chevy cherry stave drum. Well, that sounds amazing. Do you know what you're the second person this week Kevin to ask me about this head drop. And I am embarrassed to say so here's what I can tell you. It is a drum supply snare drum. It's 14 by six and a half in size. It has a purple sparkle wrap. But past that I have no idea. I have no idea. It was a gift from my husband. And I love it and it sounds in just sounds amazing. It sounds amazing in the studio, it sounds amazing live. It's just one of those really versatile drums and usually is wood as well. I say that because usually I like metal drums like I just prefer it's just my experience. I've just used a lot of metal drums so I understand how to manipulate them and get the sound that I want. But this drum is like it's I love it. I absolutely love it. So yeah, it's a drum supply, snare drum. They're based in Nashville. That's all I can tell you and I love it. That's all I can tell you. So Jake, Brett says to Matt north. Yes, I've got the zoom q2 and it's great. I realised my question wasn't clear. I mean something for taking time lapse spills annoyingly the Zoom doesn't do stills oh yes Jake that's true. We work this out or you told me this on our call the other day so yeah, that makes sense. But yeah, the GoPro is really it's an excellent all rounder, I would say the GoPro go for the for Joe Perkins says Wednesday, I think yes, but Thursday will be okay, too. Oh, no, Joe, you're in my diary. It's just a car. Remember my diary right now all I can think about is this slow stream so it's all good. I'm glad you like the guitar tones. I've got a fun one planned for the intro of this new track. Oh yeah. I love it. I absolutely love it. Can't wait. I literally can't wait. kriegstein says got to fly to Scotland for a gig this week. Any tips on how you pack a full set of breakables into one EasyJet hood luggage? hand luggage? I think I'm just using a Samsonite case symbols on a under 20 inches. So they found well who knew? Right any tips of how you pack a footer, breakables? Oh, breakables? Well, hand luggage a bit rough in it, that's a bit rough. If you could. No, no, no, not really. I've I've packed breakables into chapter luggage. That's kind of fine, but a very small snare drum, very thin snare drum. If you can get one of those backpack ones and try and black it or give it someone else to wear on their back that would help you bring in a kick drum pedal. Because if you are get that out, just deal with whatever's there. Oh, scary. Yeah, no, no, I'll tell you what, another really good thing. Have you seen those very small, big first stick bag so they're in conjunction with Mike dole, where they're literally about? What's that? 10 centimetres, 810 centimetres wide, and they're great. You can pack about three pairs, four pairs of sticks in there. They're really good for things like that. But yeah, pasla knew not a clue. But I'd really like to see a picture of how you ended up packing that Matthew says to Jake Ah, gotcha. I'm guessing for a time lapse a more traditional sorry more traditional digital stills camera of some sort. Yeah, like I say a GoPro works great for stills. And the the Sony does do stills but you have to download a second application. Which is really annoying, or at least you did on the old ones. Maybe on the new ones. You don't have to but it is worth it is worth it. Nathan Trump is here. Hello, Nathan. How are you? i You're kidding. Well, that was your fault. I did that live stream the other day? No, I'm joking. Thank you for your lovely input. So it was kind of doing the live stream in real time of me doing all that photograph stuff. Nathan kind of suggested it and I was like, You know what, maybe I will do like a fly on the wall live stream. So I'm not interacting like this, but you can see what's happening and what's going on. So I'm not sure. I'm not sure if it's beneficial. I'm not sure. I think being engaging is a better use of everyone's time mine annuals to be honest. Chris pound is there. Hello, Chris. Hi Emily. Good to see you. Again. I'm travelling from Kent to Yorkshire. So listening and not watching Chris I apologise you probably, you know, I'm talking all about these pictures and videos and look at this and look at that and you're going can't see anything but just keep driving. It's all good. I hope it's not too long of a drive that that's a bit of a schlep and was that five hours maybe. Charlotte baby says earlier time is good for me. means I can always watch whilst doing some work before lessons later. I'm so glad Charlotte to be fair. I think earlier works better for me too, because when I've been doing these later on in the day, I finish and I literally I'm like just just fall I'm so exhausted. I can't even tell you. So it's just not ideal. I don't think I don't think I like this I like I like slightly earlier. So Matthew says I played a warm up gig with Mike Westbroek. That's right locally and the gig was amazing. The next gig is paizo Express jazz cafe. That's right, fingers crossed. Nobody else has it and the gig will go ahead. That's what I was. Thinking it wasn't Ronnie's it was Peter Express because get its thing straight right which is Is that what your body says always like the next street? He's been Street? Yes. I don't know. I know where it is to see it but I Charlotte baby says great podcast. Oh thank you Charlotte. You have a kind as always, you're always to kind sales to says to to me is interesting. On the webpage Go Pro 10. I start feel like these are notes that you're writing on right q2 And is interesting. Oh on the webpage right. He's on the webpage right now to have a look. So it just says GoPro 10 sound has issue unless you use with the use the kit with the Modify mic. Multiple lights, like a concert can overwhelm the camera and get blur or one light overtake disaster. Thank you for this insight on some guided and by now I must say I don't use GoPro for any audio ever, ever, ever, ever is purely for the visual. But the brilliant thing about the GoPro at least with the eight so the eight I've been using most recently on the Kim wild gigs and especially 2018 2019 We had the most incredible lighting directors ever. What this meant was so usually when I'm the one that has to set up the lights and try and make it look half decent and I don't know what I'm doing. I've got a professional who's lighting the whole show and ends up lighting me up like just the most amazing, professional dynamic looking lighting and I'm just striking poses essentially, whilst I'm playing. I'm just playing and you know, very dynamically obviously, and I don't mean like quietly or loudly. I mean, like, you know, with big movement. So yeah, John Davis, you are a legend. You're a legend amongst men. And so yeah, thank you those are so that's really good insight about the 10 so maybe hold off on the 10 I love the eight. If you're looking for a better price point the four works great. Or some of these there are some like knockoff versions but you know, copy versions. They're meant to be brilliant too. So yeah, just go research and do some stuff. A lot of people have like they put stuff online of what they've what video What photos they've taken with them. So just look that up. I feel like in fact Instagram probably would be a great one. If you just search a hashtag GoPro to or go pro four or whatever and just see what comes up interesting. Dolly make says loving all the photos ha Thank you Donnie I haven't oh yeah cats just checking that they're not still going on on a slideshow because this kind of thing I would do. And hello, Ollie how are you? Hi everyone. Sorry, I'm late joining it's lovely to have you as always Ali. Matthew says I was going to get a compact Sony like that. It didn't have a viewfinder. So I got the Panasonic Lumix T Zed 90 as a pocket camera wasn't cheap. About 450 quid Yeah. So I thought that getting a camera like this one would be super not cheap, but cheaper than he was. Especially at the time. I got that a long time ago. I've had this camera a long time. And it is expensive, but it's it is a great investment if you use it. Obviously. There was something else. Oh, that's the other thing. I think it's about just finding equipment and this goes for cameras. This goes for microphones it goes for drums. This goes for everything electronics, playback doors anything not doors that you open DAW digital audio workstations. Find something that works for what you need it to do. So my criteria for a camera was always works in low lighting. In fact, that was it. That was my first criteria must work in low light. That's what got me onto the Sony. Then I realised the Sony by design did not have a time lapse function. Luckily they had an app so it was fine. So the next one was right something that works when in low light and as the time lapse function. So that was the GoPro that was amazing. The next one was having something that I could plug in so I didn't need to rely on a battery for it to run out because sometimes I don't know if it's me i The new In fact, the eight is good. You can put it on to a mains, but a lot of these cameras you can't. So that was like the next criteria for the next camera and each one just gets a little bit better and a little bit better. So just work out what you need it to do. And then find the camera so another thing fun thing I found out about why I needed a different camera this one in specific that I'm talking to right now. This other Sony which is not an RX one 100 Is that the RX 100 the batteries would overheat and it would just stop after about 25 minutes the viewfinder or the lens would close and that was it game over you're done. And it doesn't matter what it's doing. Whereas this new one, it doesn't overheat as much so you can go for longer. Granted, sometimes I get it wrong and sometimes it does close and that's for other reasons. But that's user error. That is not actually the cameras problem. So I hope that that helps in some way. Simone says I have a GoPro Hero four and it is really good, but it does get quite hot. Yeah, some of them do. I also bought a Goodmans action cam from b&m From a recommendation it's surprisingly good with a 10 ATP resolution, same thing. So a good man's action cam is a is a suggestion. And yeah, I think there's so many different things around anyway. So I guess that's part of the problem. You kind of don't know what you want to get. Matthew says I still use my HTN that's awesome Matthew Adams I I'm I'm glad that you also survived. I think I ended up buying a four to N note for h4 and we're talking about h4 And I'm looking over there because I'm pretty sure it's in that drawer but I'm not going to go and roam around for it because that is going to not do anyone any favours. Simone says I also have a Sony A 3000 D S R it never lets me down. DSLR scares the hell out of me. As soon as you start disconnecting lenses and stuff. I freak out so I can't. I can't. I can't it's too much for me. That's my that's my line. That's my line of comprehension and understanding without going down the rabbit hole of things like lenses which I'm sure is a wonderful place but I have enough rabbit holes that I have to kind of just pretend aren't there with John's and mics and preamps and all of that so I don't need any more how rabbit holes to be falling down. So Matthew says my main video camera is a Sony nx 100 But that was well pricey but it's fat. Yeah. I do find you often do get what you pay for. I will say that with cameras. It's interesting because there's a lot of things in life that that isn't the case or very rarely, but one for one. It's pretty for my experience at least pretty spot on what you get is what you pay for. Simone says Kim rod is awesome. Yes, she is. She's awesome. The band are awesome. I can't wait to be back on tour with them next year. It's gonna be so fun. J Pratt, so thanks for the camera recommendations everyone. Amazing. There you go. Jake. Also it don't even says thanks so much for answering my question, Emily. Awesome. That is really helpful. Awesome. That is really helpful and glad. Looks like I'm going to be doing lots of videos. Don't you're doing videos. I seen your videos of you shredding. Like, I love it. It's amazing. But yeah, right. If you do more than it's just more visibility, isn't it? It's just the thing. And we'll be using these photo tips to Yeah, do it. Do it. Totally. Just find some cool angles and just, you know, strikes and poses and go for it. kriegstein says sorry, meant checked luggage. Yep, pedal to Oh check luggage Oh yeah. Others find towels, lots of towels or wrap the drums in clothes. If you really want to be extra take if you take it. I assume you're taking a snare drum and take the head off and pack stuff in there. Clean it out first because I don't know about you but some of the insides of my snare drums. So yeah, we packed some of the stuff in there too. So maybe you could do like open up the head of the snare drum. Put a towel around the middle. Stick your pedal in there maybe with that fit potentially maybe or bits. Yeah. Oh, that should I shouldn't be too difficult. I Oh, I've packed some I've packed a lot more than a few breakables in a case before that you know says pizzaexpress is up past exit somewhere Oh right. Yeah, yeah, Dean street I think oh, yeah, sorry. i It's me being completely ignorant thinking that the only jazz pizzaexpress is the one that's on Dean Street. I apologise Matthew, I'm an idiot. Otto says I love this live stream full of enthusiasm and positivity. I'm losing my voice though. Keep doing this. But don't forget to breathe every now and again. I know you're right. I know. Thank you. Let's all pray together for a second okay so guys, hello, Sergei. How are you? You're a fairly new person to the situation. I know we have spoken over email and it was lovely to get an email from you. So hello, and I think you're doing stuff for drum stem club. There's a little bell in my brain saying that you're you've been using the multi tracks if anyone that doesn't know. Drum Sound club is free drum multi tracks for anyone that wants to use them that can be producers, songwriters, singers, singers, musicians if you want to release them you can get 100% free. You can mess with them. You can edit them, you can do whatever you want. If you go to drum stem club.com All I ask is to get a credit basically and just spread the word about drum stem club to other people is basically something I thought about from when I was a kid growing up. I didn't have a lot and light is in our family. We had lots in like love and support and amazingness like my family are incredible. But in terms of monetary there's so much so I just thought about what I would really have benefited from as a kid growing up trying to make it as a professional musician what would really have helped me and this is my version of that for musicians that are coming up so I would have loved like tracks to play to like whether it was just like a bass player jamming or whatever I used to play along to music but to have music without drums would be amazing. So this is my version of that for any musicians that want to just play along practice record to or yeah, if you want to do a full on production if you want to practice production and mixing drums and you know, using compressors and doing all that fun stuff and E cueing stuff, then that's for you. So drum step, drum stem club.com Go there, be there be square, or be square, don't be square. Ali says I'm sure I missed this. I apologise for asking for you to repeat. But what camera are you using now for these lives? I don't think I did say actually Ali I think I'm being silly so that this is a Sony zet v one. Say I'm so not about the gay I've no idea what I'm using. I know I like it. So it's a new version of this old RX 100 is geared more towards blogs. And blogs and speaking to camera basically says out said love my Canon DSLR but bulky lol yes the other thing cameras can be very bulky because that's the only thing with a GoPro chuck in your bag. You can take that with you on check luggage, that's for sure that would work in frames here. Hello in Hey N Ghani live gigs lined up in the near future. No, I am I my next live gig that I'm aware of is in March. And I'm pretty sure it's in Butlins but I'm happy with that because I am in the studio now I haven't had a studio for five months. I'm back here. I'm putting my router back down in here and just you know, having some semblance of like a routine. And I get to do things like this like as soon as I start doing live gigs routines go out the window for me because, you know, it could be a gig at the other end. of the country. And it's just like our take out not just the day of the gig for the day after the gig and then energy levels and no, so I'm just enjoying sort of doing all the stuff in the studio. Oh, right. Matthew says no, that was a joke. It is the industry I'm playing. Matthew, You Are you got me I am the most gullible person you'll ever meet. I will say that, but equally, you definitely got me so thinking straight. Simone says Emily, what was your first major live gig and what was the experience? Were you nervous? Okay, first major live gig. This is this is gonna sound insane. So what I consider my first ever kind of like named gig I'm doing this I'm a professional drummer. Here we go. This is um, there was in 2008 it was with a band called The ours who were a cmp sort of indie pop rock kind of bands sort of a bit like they was liking themselves to elbow a little bit I think. Really good fun. Anyway, the first gig we ever did some crazy was in New York. It was at Sotheby's which some really posh Auction House. It was as part of, you know, Banos charity red. It was as it was part of one of his red charity auction nights. And we were the entertainment term. Yeah. That was my first sort of proper live big gig. And here's the kicker. Golf stage. So, yeah, Gloucester we've done a set. We'd learn a couple of Beatles tunes for the encore, and I didn't really know why I've just like whenever I'm new here, like wherever you say I'll do it. Like, it's fine. When back on stage started playing, and then bado gets up and just starts playing and singing with our son came over and was hitting my drums and I was like, that's crazy. So yeah, that was my first ever professional sort of gig and Was I nervous honestly, I don't remember. I don't think I was, which I know is rubbish. I wish I was. But I learned very early on that I didn't like the feeling of feeling nervous because what represented to me was that I didn't feel prepared. And from that moment on, and that was when I was 11 on top, I'm too extreme. But when I was 11, I remember going to play my first ever gig. I was walking to the stage and I felt physically sick and I have I have a bit of a vomiting phobia. So I was like, right, never want to feel like that again. So I made sure like I worked out why I was feeling like that. I just didn't feel prepared. So I made sure everything that I went into, I felt so prepared that there's no way I could be nervous. But consequently what that means is that I get to really truly enjoy everything that I do and be in the moment because I'm not worried about anything. So I don't remember feeling nervous. I remember feeling like this is the most surreal thing that has ever happened to anyone and this is the first big mad things happened with that band. It was a it was an amazing amazing band. And amazing Yeah, time to be in that band. But yeah, anyway, so that was my first ever live big gig I suppose. Sounds to says I was hoping em would have joined whoa Joe. Downing Kanku last week. Yes, I'll start I saw your picture. No, picture your video. And we have Whoa, Joe. Yeah, it looked like at the wall. It looked like all of that. Time was amazing. So there's been a big 80s festival going on in Cancun and Michael was there. And in fact it was on one of these festivals that we met and and says those just lovely, wonderful human and said thanks for the update. I get it. 100% When you're in the in this zone is really cool. I've been using some stumbling blocks. I've been using some stem club stuff, but I'm deffo gonna tap you up for a project proper project. EZ drummer and Emily vidi Well, I've gotta say in what a wonderful note to leave this live stream on and yes, please do get in touch when you need some drums you know where I am. But thank you everyone for being here. I really hope that you know this inspires you to do some some photos and maybe even some videos and all that other sort of stuff. Tag me when you do I want to see what you create because I feel like you're going to be really surprised and you end like in a good way. I think I think you're going to pleasantly surprise yourself and actually might enjoy it even maybe just a little bit. Maybe I know I do for sure. Oh quickly Simone says have you heard of the Japanese drama cord? And Nyan goes star always makes me laugh. No, I haven't bothered to go and look them up right now. My favourite Japanese drama is a Kira Jimbo because he is the first ever drum clinic I went to when I was 14. It wasn't meant to be it was meant to be oh my Hakeem was the first drum clinic when I was about 12 or 13 but the venue and let me in. How sad. Anyway, lovely to see you all and again if you want to be part of this live or if you want to ask any questions, go to Emily's live.com Sign up, ask questions. Join us you'll get watch link all the good stuff. But it's been lovely seeing you all thank you for the loveliest conversation. It's always a wonderful way to start my week doing these with you. But have a lovely week and I guess I will catch you next time for another subject who knows what we'll be alright, I'll see you guys later.
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